Olympic Sprinter Ben Johnson on Anti-Doping Campaign

9/7/2013 11:23AM

Ben Johnson, the Canadian sprinter who was stripped of the gold medal he won at the 1988 Olympics in Seoul, Korea, talks about his view on drugs in sports and the anti-doping campaign he has joined. Photo: Associated Press

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I ... Johnson won a gold medal for Canada in nineteen eighty eight Olympics ... shortly after that ... he tested positive for banned anabolic steroids ... was the biggest doping scandal in sports history at the time now since then ... in the last twenty five years ... than many other doping scandals that are brought down ... heroes like Lance Armstrong Barry Bonds ... and others ... now ... Ben Johnson ... is now a spokesman for anti doping ... Janie Fuller's the chairman of skin's a sports clothing line ... has linked up with tend to spread the message and Adobe around the world ... sedan twenty five years after positive test why now why come out now ... on ... to talk about this issue ... um number reason ... um ... winsome and this was the ... the first person ... so says he's been jaunts ... and ... Otis was one of the moment ... you know say ... I suggested job but can it heats up ... competing ... but ... what I was told that cool ... on my level or even to compete against was using a from an unseen just need to ... be competitive ... to ... so here's ... what to do their work ... did you see fit it there's an issue today with certain people with with young athletes ... in sports like track and field ... um not be able to say no here beans have sucked in having no other option is that is a year you're feeling ... low ... in the good and ... that if you don't have to note ... that the thing ... I'd argue that ... it needs ... on ... greater temptation ... of the steroid snowboarding that what people will be unseen ... which we should be going ... to have greater forests money ... and Congress was cheap so it ... really been embodies his money ... but he is due to run to and say no ... we can help utilities in Japan ... and will soon get to know what he ... and oh forty fifty or something and ... the dispositive ... the bottom lines going ... in at least get blamed and punished and no one else ... doesn't ... he ... eight she meets if you ... were involved in sponsoring cycling tracks ... aam and that certain is that what drew you into this issue of of doping in sports the end of the great how around town Brian philosophy is around feeling the true spirit of competition ... with that philosophy and on and we ... got heavily into inched into the cycle in Dubai ... the drugs in cycling and we sold or problems with the Clinton ministrations ... it was also saw a documentary on ban on ... the call one point seven on ... did I realize that been was ... the guy cause of stoppages rice in nineteen ninety I ... it was six of them have been sensitive documents to prove ... and then also you know this is really un reasonable because he's been carrying the can be no possible way ... I think the youth and the prices for history Expo so I ... tracked them down in Toronto earlier this year ... Laura from we had lunch and talked about it and Dom ... part basically pitched in minority regatta campaign to coincide with the twenty fifth anniversary of the rice ... my promise to him ... and then he tells LaVette your life and in its twenty five years since ... the needle and fix ... what you mean doing ... what it means to some that were being doing business ... here and there mostly in Japan where we're going to next aam ... ten years from now ... um you know I'd be doing in the town ... aam ... is on ... your works with kids ... our new letter from ... of playing soccer for charity to raise money for the perfect easy enough to turn a schism comfort and so forth so ... I'm always do something good in a committed team to give something back from a team in training athletes as well you haven't ... yet worked with some assets to us of some use nom and ... talk to me and some in the ... current quarter is going to university to respond to ... some continuing to give something back ... so ... when you train a young athlete ... is one the questions they always ask you know ... what the drugs need ask you ... to be opened these ... these these these insurers are never ask me about comes from the ... keys to this point the sentiment to know what's going on in sports to ... get us going on in today's society ... don't ... they know what had he been rapid and sudden ever come across in Savannah ... I'll what country to take all when they can never come across to stand up and that ... she never came up to the Jews had to tell them you see abdicate ... financing not take drugs to say you can do this without drugs or you can keep the ... I seventy know if you believe in yourself in all a member of reproach ... the experts in the field ... he property ... let me to shame ... he writes is the supplements you can achieve that goal we don't and steroids ... because now ... focus include doctors and professionals ... is making Baidu means no can do ... on the great use that Dems ... and we don't believe in himself ... train hard disciplined coverage ... focus he can make it ... see you're sane and if they get the young ... you know hundred meter sprinter ... on today ... is competing against ... each other guys who are using a ... using steroids ... the clean guy can win if he's he's ... talented enough and trains are a way for ... the current enough and train the trainer who can see in the high and when the Canucks ... and every ... piece being supplements that can ... you can use Regiment of ... the artwork for use in need only look to provide a means ... to be taken and what he works to fend them off the day ... I'll ... never go ... to hell ... and so appealing and if you missed ... dose ... base by one hundred ... percent but fumbled chief for weeks t think that was true in eighty eight ... athletes can compete ... you can keep clean against ... other athletes who deal ... with Sprint Aaron was born ... me I believe that ... I can still win the game of green jobs back to back in nineteen eighty ... we run as fast or what IRAs and ... when the games ... Jamie what's your state's new seen it in ... you know a lot of different perspectives now from different sports mean ... t feel like ... athletes are kind of getting that message or the owners don't think we have a problem with ... dogs ... when your standard numbers and the dollar's fall why ... spoil the business of sport ... and Alex Brown ... it's quite easy to see the conflict that exists between the antidumping font ... the Federation's are on the sports ... and that's when when pushing a couple of key points in that time ... specifically to have wanna find ... the method I hate this world antidote the agency will then get into that the agency because ... right now they founded fifty percent between the RNC and governments ... and the total budgets twenty six million dollars a year you know that's ... that's was what I Iran and some hints with some possible Longines ... it's less than twenty percent of what Gareth Ellis trespassing laws ... earlier this week ... from took them to rail Madrid ... so when you put into perspective ... you really have to challenge went on ... to people about the custodians of school ... to me on this and then be seen as a systemic problem like that too ... tilting is not really ... it's not so much an individual problem but that promise a whole ... here's sport ... business the industry there's there's many ... countries Iran weren't in the fun part ... don't bring an end ... it's small in the middle of the resources ... of the money ... to ... go get your to do been ... tested but ... you can get unlimited ... and you know in your no not done ... some countries already have ... you know what you tested all over the last several months and Peter and fast I'm sold ... in all only country that ... can afford the legal system a Khadr was to learn what funding ... forecasts ... go here and and these guys are awesome ... Peter Parker testing procedures to was your help as result of news going around talking to you that the scoldings camel discussions on what what's your hope ... the teacher of sports ... yet on Sundays when I was young ... I remember her tool that ... is built in sports a team that ... won us all into your body was clean and fair but it was ... some die ... hard work and good fortune ... when a new home or as I see you ... this would happen in sports ... so ... I was introduced to ensure a different culture ... the society ... you know ... and and I say yes to me because ... as to what I ... had no ... time ... to time as an alternate name for Economic jam said ... an expected twenty four months produced with less than five years ... like this before when summoned dispositive ... Department awesome ... right as the fear so I mean are trying to spread messages are ... turning the ... arguments ... seem to be high so they can intellect accepted a wide margin that ... is if we can get ... the last government to bring water in ... the ... house wanted to prepare a plan and a bunch of ... silly walks ... this takes so much a repeat it signed center and Johnson Jane E Fuller and Reed Albergotti The Wall Street Journal thanks ...